xCSometimes you stumble across a treasure when youxre looking for something else entirelyxD New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings listeners to the lush abundance of Sonoma County in a novel of sisters friendship and how memories are woven like a spell around usTess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners People like Annelise Winther who refuses to sell her long-gone motherxs beloved necklacexdespite Tessxs advice To Annelise the jewelxs value is in its memoriesBut Tessxs own history is filled with gaps a father she never met a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter So Tess is shocked when she discovers the grandfather she never knew is in a coma And that she has been named in his will to inherit half of Bella Vista a hundred-acre apple orchard in the magical Sonoma town called ArchangelThe rest is willed to Isabel Johansen A half sister shexs never heard ofAgainst the rich landscape of Bella Vista Tess begins to discover a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family of the warm earth beneath her bare feet A world where family comes first and the roots of history run deep A place where falling in love is not only possible but inevitableAnd in a season filled with new experiences Tess begins to see the truth in something Annelise once told her if you donxt believe memories are worth more than money then perhaps youxve not made the right kind of memoriesFrom one of Americaxs most beloved writers The Apple Orchard is a story of family tiesxboth old and newxand of the moments that connect our hearts.
